Cinder has an appeal to pathos because Melissa Meyers engages her audience through Cinders upbringing and allows her audience to develop emotions regarding how Cinders life will turn out. Cinder lives a difficult life and has a heart wrenching including the loss of many friends and family due to disease and other causes. The author describes Cinders upbringing in a way that makes one feel as though they were alongside her through the loss of her family and friends. When they discover Cinder is actually more powerful than people believed it makes people feel warm inside because she finally is able to push past the darkness surrounding her. The author persuades her audience into wanting to read more because she makes almost every chapter have